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Schedule Set for ACC/Big Ten Challenge & SEC/BIG EAST Challenge

ESPN has finalized the network and time assignments for the ACC/Big Ten Challenge Presented by DICK’s Sporting Goods and SEC/BIG EAST Challenge, two popular early season men’s college basketball events matching premier conferences against each other. ESPN, ESPN2 and ESPNU will combine to televise all 24 Challenge games (12 from each event) over five consecutive days, November 27 to December 1.

All 24 games will also be available via WatchESPN, which delivers live access to ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU and ESPN3 on PCs, smartphones and tablets to fans who receive ESPN’s linear networks as part of their video subscription from Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Bright House Networks or Verizon FiOS TV.

ACC/Big Ten ChallengeThe 14th annual ACC/Big Ten Challenge, a two-day event matching top programs playing for the Commissioners Cup on November 27 and 28, will be highlighted by North Carolina at Indiana, Ohio State at Duke and NC State at Michigan, six programs expected to be highly ranked entering the 2012-13 season.

The ACC won the first 10 Challenges while the Big Ten has captured the Commissioner Cup for the past three events, including an eight to four win advantage last year. In the event of a 6-6 tie, the Commissioner’s Cup will remain with the conference that won the previous year.

2012 ACC/Big Ten Challenge schedule:

Date

Time (ET)

Game

Network

Tue, Nov 27

7:15 p.m.

No. 25 Minnesota at Florida State

ESPN2

Iowa at Virginia Tech

ESPNU

7:30 p.m.

No. 6 NC State at No. 5 Michigan

ESPN

9:15 p.m.

Maryland at Northwestern

ESPN2

Nebraska at Wake Forest

ESPNU

9:30 p.m.

No. 13 North Carolina at No. 1 Indiana

ESPN

Wed, Nov 28

7 p.m.

Virginia at No. 22 Wisconsin

ESPN2

7:15 p.m.

Purdue at Clemson

ESPNU

7:30 p.m.

No. 9 Michigan State at Miami

ESPN

9 p.m.

Georgia Tech at Illinois

ESPN2

9:15 p.m.

Boston College at Penn State

ESPNU

9:30 p.m.

No. 8 Ohio State at No. 15 Duke

ESPN

SEC/BIG EAST ChallengeThe second annual SEC/BIG EAST Challenge, a three-day event November 29 to December 1, will include defending national champion Kentucky at Notre Dame, last season’s BIG EAST regular-season champion Syracuse at Arkansas and Marquette at Florida in a showdown of each conference’s 2012 second place finishers.

The BIG EAST won the inaugural Challenge eight games to four. This year’s event will include first-time participation by BIG EAST members Marquette, Notre Dame, South Florida and Villanova. All 12 SEC teams played in last year’s Challenge along with Cincinnati, DePaul, Georgetown, Providence, Rutgers, St. John’s, Seton Hall and Syracuse of the BIG EAST.

2012 SEC/BIG EASTChallenge schedule:

Date

Time (ET)

Game

Network

Thu, Nov 29

7 p.m.

No. 3 Kentucky at No. 19 Notre Dame

ESPN2

7:30 p.m.

South Carolina at St. John’s

ESPNU

9 p.m.

Marquette at No. 12 Florida

ESPN2

9:30 p.m.

Seton Hall at LSU

ESPNU

Fri, Nov 30

6:30 p.m.

Tennessee at Georgetown

ESPN

7 p.m.

Georgia at South Florida

ESPNU

8:30 p.m.

No. 10 Syracuse at Arkansas

ESPN

9 p.m.

DePaul at Auburn

ESPNU

Sat, Dec 1

3 p.m.

Alabama at Cincinnati

ESPN2

5 p.m.

Villanova at Vanderbilt

ESPN2

TBD

Mississippi State at Providence

ESPNU

TBD

Rutgers at Mississippi

ESPNU

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